Orphaned in Afghanistan, Adopted in America: The Battle for Baby L.
Now 3, “Baby L.” lives with a U.S. Marine and his wife, but her Afghan family claims she was taken under false pretenses. A court may soon decide.
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Now 3, “Baby L.” lives with a U.S. Marine and his wife, but her Afghan family claims she was taken under false pretenses. A court may soon decide.
A war orphan is claimed by two families: her Afghan relatives and a U.S. Marine who adopted her from 7,000 miles away. Who gets to keep the child?
The baby had been rescued two years earlier from the rubble of a U.S. military raid that killed her parents and five siblings.
The couple, once they arrived in the U.S., filed a lawsuit against the marine and his wife, accusing them of stealing their child during the chaotic evacuation.
A war orphan is claimed by two families: her Afghan relatives and a U.S. Marine who adopted her from 7,000 miles away. An Associated Press investigation pieces together the story of the child, as a judge in a tiny Virginia town decides who gets to keep her.